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Experts estimate one in four students is bullied in school, but that number doubles when it comes to harassment online.

Jamie and her mother, April, want lawmakers in Montpelier to build on Vermont's bullying law, giving schools and authorities better tools at punishment.

"They go on anonymous and send you a lot of rude stuff and tell you to kill yourself," Jamie said about the harassment. She is a member of the website Ask.fm. Users pose questions and can get back anonymous answers. Unidentified posters can also write on your page without any prompts.

"I normally just brush it off, but after a while, it gets a little insulting," Jamie said.

The comments are insulting and at times insensitive. One anonymous person wrote to Jamie, "You try to act happy, but inside, you know you should kill yourself."

"In my opinion, I would love to see laws passed where off-campus bullying is against the law because it effects on-campus behavior," April said.

Vermont has some of the strongest bullying laws in the country, requiring schools to have policies and report cases. A post on Jamie's page saying someone wanted to throw a rock at her is the only one that prosecutors can touch, April said, but there is no easy way to find out who is behind it. State police have since passed the information on to the state's attorney, April said.

"It's the other comments that say, 'Kill yourself fatty,' 'Kill yourself,' 'We'd be better off without you,' those are the comments that bother me," April said.

They are more bothersome because there is not much the school can do -- especially under an anonymous guise.

"It seems like the severity and the acuity of a lot of these instances has definitely escalated," said Corey Richardson, a social work adjunct professor at the University of Vermont. Richardson also heads up the Burlington-based organization Rancing Revolution, which seeks to rid our culture of bullying.

Teenagers inherently want to push the envelope, she said.

"When you take that behavior online and you add the anonymous component, it really allows you to take so much more risks," she said.

Those risks are turning up as posts on Jamie's page. The family's hope – eventually courts can weigh in.

WPTZ NewsChannel 5 reached out to Missisquoi Valley Union's principal and the district's superintendent three times and did not get a response. We also did not hear back from Ask.fm.

A state council is set to meet in January to look at ways to handle harassment and bullying at Vermont schools.